Law and Language

1. Introduction: Law and Language; 2. Legal Texts and Canons of Construction: A View from Current Pragmatic Theory; 3. Linguistic Meaning and Legal Truth; 4. Truth in Law; 5. Language, Truth, and Law; 6. Claims of Legal Authorities and 'Expressions of Intention': The Limits of Philosophy of Language; 7. Legal Pluralism: A Systems Theory Approach to Language, Translation, and Communication; 8. Frame Semantics and the 'Internal Point of View'; 9. Hart as Contextualist? Theories of Interpretation in Language and the Law; 10. On Goodness and Genre: Talking about Virtue in Law and Literature; 11. The Grin's Cat: Language, Law, and Literature; 12. Reading and Writing the Law: Macaulay in India; 13. 'Where be his quiddities now?' Law and Language in Hamlet; 14. Stories in Law: Providing Space for 'Oppositionists'?; 15. Literal Interpretation and English Precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, Lawyer; 16. Toward a Cognitive Science of Legal Interpretation; 17. Do You Kick a Dog When It's Down? Considering the Use of Children's Video-taped Testimonies in Court; 18. The Power of Naming: Surnames, Children, and Spouses; 19. The Role of Language in Legal Contexts: A Forensic Cross-linguistic Viewpoint; 20. Vagueness and Power-Delegation in Law: A Reply to Sorensen; 21. Plato's Fertility Clinic: Status and Identity Rhetoric in Parenthood Disputes; 22. Silence, Speech, and the Paradox of the Right to Remain Silent in American Police Interrogation; 23. The Consumption of Legal Language: Consuming the Law; 24. (Language + Law)2 = ?; 25. MMORPGing, Law, and Lingo; 26. Construing Commercial Contracts: No Need for Violence; 27. Why Are Non-US Contracts Written in US Legalese? Some Preliminary Thoughts, and a Research Agenda; 28. The Role of Parliamentary Rhetoric in Facilitating the Racial Effect of the Section 44 Terrorism Act 2000 Stop and Search Powers; 29. Precedent at the Court of Justice of the European Union: the Linguistic Aspect; 30. Law and Language(s) at the Heart of the European Project: Educating Different Kinds of Lawyers; 31. Foreign Law in Translation: If Truth Be Told..; 32. First-person Perspectives in Legal Decisions; 33. Deaf People at the Old Bailey from the 18th Century Onwards; 34. Rule of the Root: Proto-Indo-European Domination of Legal Language; 35. Necessary Violence?: Inscribing the Subject of Law